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Mueller, Ian

[about Hypatia:]In an era in which the domain of intellect and politics were almost exclusively male, Theon [her father] was an unusually liberated person who taught an unusually gifted daughter and encouraged her to achieve things that, as far as we know, no woman before her did or perhaps even dreamed of doing.

In G. Simmons Calculus Gems, New York: McGraw Hill Inc., 1992.

Moroney, M.J.

The words figure and fictitious both derive from the same Latin root, fingere. Beware!

Facts from Figures.

Moore, E.H. (1862 - 1932)

We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction:"The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features...."

Mordell, L.J.

Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does.

Mitchell, Margaret

... She knew only
that if she did or
said thus-and-so,
men would unerringly
respond with the
complimentary
thus-and-so. It was
like a mathematical
formula and no more
difficult, for
mathematics was the
one subject that had
come easy to
Scarlett in her
schooldays.[From Gone
with the Wind]

Gone With the Wind.

Minsky, Marvin Lee (1927- )

Logic doesn't apply
to the real world.

D. R. Hofstadter and
D. C. Dennett
(eds.), The Mind's
I, 1981.

Minkowski, Herman

From henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, have vanished into the merest shadows and only a kind of blend of the two exists in its own right.

In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.

Milton, John (1608-1674)

Chaos umpire sitsAnd by decision
moreembroils
the frayby
which he reigns:
nexthim high
arbiterChance
governs all.

unknown

Milton, John (1608-1674)

From Man or Angel
the great
ArchitectDid
wisely to conceal,
and not divulge,His secrets, to be
scanned by them who
oughtRather
admire. Or, if they
list to tryConjecture, he his
fabric of the
HeavensHath
left to their
disputes -- perhaps
to moveHis
laughter at their
quaint opinions
wideHereafter,
when they come to
model HeavenAnd calculate the
stars: how they will
wieldThe
mighty frame: how
build, unbuild,
contriveTo
save appearances;
how gird the
SphereWith
Centric and
Eccentric scribbled
o'er,Cycle and
Epicycle, Orb in
Orb.[From
Paradise
Lost]